"That was unexpectedly bold of you." Tangze was slightly surprised to hear how little her answer wavered.
"I've simply thought it through." Curacao let out a breath. "If you wanted me dead, you'd had plenty of chances. There was no need to wait until today."
Trusting someone like Kumeru, who lived entirely within lies, would have sounded absurd to anyone else. But Curacao felt that her thoughts were very clear now.
Over the course of the day, while playing with the children, she had been thinking over everything that had happened since receiving Rum's assignment and breaking into the National Police Agency.
She could not say for certain yet, but she was convinced that the two women who had cared for her for several days, and Kumeru, were inextricably connected to the process of him knocking her off the bridge, someone pulling her from the water, and her being brought to this amusement park.
If he had merely wanted her dead, and wanted to satisfy Rum without exposing those suspicious private dealings from before, there had been no need for him to go to such lengths.
The car accident back then had been completely real. Even she had not expected that when she opened her eyes again, she would have only a few scrapes and no further injuries.
Kumeru was not merely plotting something. By the time he had come this far and stood here, his scheme had already succeeded.
In that case, she might as well let him carry out the plan he had prepared long ago... and see just how far he could go.
"You've got a clear head." Tangze nodded.
Having voiced the hardest decision, Curacao instead relaxed. "You've saved me several times too. I should have thanked you from the start."
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